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  • Designing a 100% Renewable Energy System
    Events at Stanford - 22:56 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Live Virtual Event: Please register using link Speaker: Dr. Jens Madrian Seminar Abstract: Dr. Jens Madrian will outline NEOM Energy's strategy to develop the world's first 100% renewable energy system. The key focus areas will be system design goals, intermittency challenges, and key enablers for system stabilization and optimization. Speaker Bio: Dr. Jens Madrian is Executive Director of NEOM Energy. He served as Chief Financial Officer at RWE Group and Chief Financial and Commercial Officer at Reactive Technologies. Jens holds a PhD and master's degree in business administration from University of Muenster, Germany. Admission Info: Seminar is open to the public. For Stanford students, faculty, and staff, the event will take place in Y2E2 300. All others, please register to attend on Zoom via the RSVP link.
  • Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Gavin Jones in Conversation with Daniel Lanza Rivers
    Events at Stanford - 22:56 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. 2:00 PM. Location: Zoom Based on Professor Gavin Jones's recent book about John Steinbeck, this conversation will consider the author's relevance to our contemporary world and his interest in pressing issues such as climate change, ecology, social injustice and the fate of humanity on a precarious planet. Register here for the Zoom webinar. Speakers: Professor Gavin Jones (Stanford University) and Professor Daniel Lanza Rivers (San Jose State University)
  • What is Design Justice?
    Events at Stanford - 22:55 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Monday, November 15, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Virtual Event Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock will be kicking off the Stanford Equitable Design in Technology (EDiT) conference with a keynote address on her book, Design Justice. Join us for an engaging discussion on the principles of inclusive design and how design can either hinder or enhance justice in communities. Following Sasha's talk, undergraduates from Stanford's Reboot community will be conducting an interview about Sasha's book. Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock is an Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT, and a researcher and designer dedicated to supporting community-led processes that build shared power, dismantle the matrix of domination, and advance ecological survival. They are currently the Director of Research & Design at the Algorithmic Justice League and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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  • CCRMA presents Vaim + Katherine Whatley
    Events at Stanford - 22:54 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Saturday, November 13, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: CCRMA Stage, The Knoll (Stanford affiliates only) This free performance will be livestreamed at CCRMA Live. In-person seating at CCRMA Stage is limited to Stanford affiliates only. Please register here with your Stanford email address (non-Stanford email addresses will be discarded). Each guest must bring their Stanford ID card to tap it at the front door and wear a mask at all times while inside the building. "As the sun slowly sets, we will make music together. We invite you to join us and listen. Our music will be freely improvised using our voices, a koto, and electronics. The sounds might be gentle or hurting." — Vaim & Katherine Whatley Katherine Whatley is a koto (Japanese transverse harp) performer and Ph.D. student studying premodern Japanese poetry and music. Her research and artistic output centers around the connections between written and spoken words, sound and music. | kwhatley.net Vaim makes folk music with computers. She sings to the damag...
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  • NOON CONCERT: The Cello Studio of Stephen Harrison
    Events at Stanford - 22:53 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 12, 2021. 12:30 PM. Location: Campbell Recital Hall The cello studio of Stephen Harrison is featured in this free noontime recital. (Program TBA.)  ADMISSION INFORMATION Free admission Please read our COVID-19 Safety information. Parking permits are required for weekday campus parking. We recommend downloading the ParkMobile app before arriving.
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  • "Three L.A.S.E.R. talks: Dante, the History of Life, Augmented Reality"
    Events at Stanford - 22:53 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 6:00 PM. Location: Zoom This evening will feature three presentations: - Albert Russell Ascoli on "Dante and the Invention of Italian, Italians, and Italy" - Kat Mustatea on "Augmented Reality and the Decaying Book" - Neil Shubin on "Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA" Albert Russell Ascoli is Terrill Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published widely, and in particular "Dante and the Making of a Modern Author" (Cambridge University Press, 2008). His current work focuses on Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron", and Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric epic, "Orlando Furioso". He is a past president of the Dante Society of America. Kat Mustatea is a playwright and technologist. She co-curates EdgeCut, a live performance series that explores our complex relationship to the digital, and is a member of NEW INC, the art and tech incubator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Voido...
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  • Physics-aware and Risk-aware Machine Learning for Power System Operations
    Events at Stanford - 22:52 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 1:30 PM. Location: Live Virtual Event: Please register using link Speaker: Hao Zhu Seminar Abstract: Hao Zhu will discuss how to bridge physics-aware and risk-aware machine learning advances into efficient and reliable grid operations.  Speaker Bio: Hao Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on developing innovative algorithmic solutions for learning and optimization problems in future energy systems. Hao Zhu received her BS from Tsinghua University and her MSc and PhD from the University of Minnesota, all in electrical engineering. Admission Info: Seminar is open to all Stanford students, faculty, and staff. Students enrolled in "CEE 272T/EE 292T: SmartGrids and Advanced Power Systems Seminar" will attend the event in person. All others, please register to attend on Zoom via the RSVP link.
  • What's Next for the U.S-Japan-South Korea Partnership?
    Events at Stanford - 22:52 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom November 18, 4:00 pm-6:00 pm PST/ November 19, 9:00 am - 11:00 am (in Japan and Korea) This is a joint Event with East Asia Institute in Korea The ROK-U.S. and U.S.-Japan joint statements have increased expectations for a possible expansion of security and economic cooperation among South Korea, the U.S. and Japan. However, heighted U.S.-China strategic competition, as well as persistent challenges in the region such as historical tensions and the North Korea threat, have complicated the strategic calculus of U.S., South Korea and Japan. Under these circumstances, the South Korea, the U.S. and Japan must define their economic and security interests and seek ways to maintain friendly relations among the three countries. This seminar will discuss security and economic cooperation among Korea, the United States and Japan in the era of strategic competition between the U.S. and China. Panel 1 on security: Park Joon Woo, former Chairman of the Sejong I...
  • National Geographic Live Greenwood: A Century of Resilience With Alicia Odewale
    Events at Stanford - 17:14 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 7:30 PM. Location: Bing Concert Hall After a successful inaugural series in the 2019–20 season at Stanford Live, National Geographic Live returns to the Bing with informative, entertaining, and awe-inspiring events that bring the world closer by combining National Geographic’s media resources with live presentations by explorers, photographers, reporters, and scientists. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, archaeologist Alicia Odewale is uncovering stories of resilience in the hundred years since the attack on Black Wall Street in the city’s vibrant Greenwood district.
  • Understanding China, Capitalism and the Media with Award-Winning Journalist David Barboza
    Events at Stanford - 16:45 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom webinar How do we understand the economic and political developments in China and its relations with western democracies and markets? What does “Chinese-style capitalism” mean and what role does media play in the various dynamics? David Barboza, the founder and editor of The Wire China and prize-winning China investigative reporter will offer his insights.
  • Spreading Digital Opportunities with U.S. Representative Ro Khanna
    Events at Stanford - 16:45 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 12, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom webinar Khanna, Silicon Valley California’s 17th District 3rd-term representative, will discuss ideas in his upcoming book: Dignity in a Digital Age, including an Internet Bill of Rights.
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  • Materia: Non-Politics & Non-Ecologies
    Events at Stanford - 15:26 Nov 03, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021. 12:30 PM. Location: Zoom Please join the materia Focal Group's second Fall 2021 event featuring McKenzie Wark (Media and Culture, Eugene Lang College, The New School) in conversation with Orlando Bentancor (Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard College).  McKenzie Wark is the author of, among other things, Molecular Red (Verso 2015) and Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker (Duke UP 2021). Prof. Wark will be delivering a talk titled "Non-Politics and Non-Ecologies," in preparation for which she has suggested the following reading: https://www.boundary2.org/2017/04/alexander-r-galloway-an-interview-with-mckenzie-wark/.  Orlando Bentancor is the author of The Matter of Empire: Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Peru (University of Pittsburgh Press 2017).  This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Modern Thought & Literature and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. RSVP
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  • Holding the Sword of Damocles: Japan in Russian and Soviet Popular Images, 1904-1945
    Events at Stanford - 23:30 Nov 02, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 5, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution Library & Archives presents the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series. Speaker: Stephen Norris, Walter E. Havighurst Professor of History and Director, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University Moderator: Anatol Shmelev, Research Fellow and Robert Conquest Curator for Russia and Eurasia, Hoover Institution Library & Archives On January 11, 1934, the Soviet newspaper Izvestiia [News], published a political caricature entitled “The Sword of Damocles.” Drawn by the paper’s chief political caricaturist, Boris Efimov, the image is dramatic: a ghost-like samurai clenching a sword labeled “war [voina]” looms over the crib of the 1934 New Year’s baby. Just over three years later, the same paper published a caricature by the same artist. “A Little Beast with a Huge Appetite” features a Japanese officer--who bears a resemblance to Emperor Hirohito--clutching at the globe with bloody, beast-like hands. These...
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  • Transnational Japanese Diaspora: Preserving the Brazilian Nikkei Literary and Cultural Heritage
    Events at Stanford - 23:29 Nov 02, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 5, 2021. 09:00 AM. Location: Virtual Event This virtual international symposium is designed to introduce the latest research on Japanese Brazilian literature in both Japanese and Portuguese languages, in conjunction with the recently digitized Burajiru Jiho newspaper, held at The Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil in São Paulo and now available on the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection.  Join us for a series of presentations by scholars in Brazil and the United States. The presentations will be primarily in English, although we will accept questions in English, Portuguese, and Japanese. This virtual symposium is free and open to the public. Register to attend. English and Portuguese translations of the program schedule, abstracts, and biographies of speakers are available on our symposium website.
  • REWIND: Jeanne Dielman (1983) and other works by Chantal Akerman
    Events at Stanford - 21:16 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Join Aviva Weintraub, director of the New York Jewish Film Festival, and Dr. Shoshana Olidort, Stanford alum and web editor for the Poetry Foundation, to discuss the works of filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Watch Jeanne Dielman, widely recognized as Akerman's masterpiece, beforehand and join the conversation. Stanford affiliates can watch the film here: https://stanford.kanopy.com/video/jeanne-dielman-23-commerce-quay-1080-brussel We look forward to being in conversation with you. Please note that the Zoom link and password will be sent out to those who have rsvp'ed the day before the event.
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  • In-Person Yappy Hour with Pets in Need
    Events at Stanford - 21:14 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Community Court between University and Discover Hall on the Stanford Redwood City Campus Stanford Redwood City's Campus Services is partnering with local animal shelter Pets in Need for an in-person Yappy Hour. Come destress and relax over the lunch hour by cuddling with some of our favorite furry friends. 
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  • Piano Studio of Louise Costigan-Kerns: Solo Piano Repertoire
    Events at Stanford - 21:13 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Saturday, November 13, 2021. 7:30 PM. Location: Campbell Recital Hall Piano students of Louise Costigan-Kerns will be featured in this recital. (Program TBA.)  ADMISSION INFORMATION Free admission Please read our COVID-19 Safety information.
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  • Film screening: Immigrant Stories: Iranian-Americans of Silicon Valley
    Events at Stanford - 21:11 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 12, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom webinar Followed by a conversation with the film's co-directors, Nima Naimi, Alireza Sanayei, and Julian Gigola.  RSVP to receive the Zoom link for the discussion on November 12.  The link to the documentary will be shared with registered attendees prior to the event. About the documentary: Iranian Americans have achieved remarkable success across all professional fields, with many recognized internationally for their outstanding contributions.  This film tells the first-hand immigration stories of several Iranian-Americans, covering 3 generations and over a dozen personal stories, and how Iranian-Americans have become one of the most successful diasporas in the U.S. About the co-directors: Nima Naimi is a first generation Iranian-American film director born and raised in the San Francisco, Bay Area.  He has studied film in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, receiving his BFA degree in Motion Picture Directing at Columbia College Hollywood.  Whil...
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  • Evolution and mechanisms of vocal learning and spoken language -Erich Jarvis
    Events at Stanford - 21:11 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Gunn Rotunda, 290 Jane Stanford Way, 94305 Abstract: Vocal learning is the most critical behavior for spoken language. It has evolved multiple independent times among mammals and birds. Remarkably, although all vocal learning species are distantly related and have closer relatives that are non-vocal learners, humans and the vocal learning birds have evolved convergent forebrain pathways that control vocal learning. We used comparative genomics and transcriptomics to discover convergent changes in multiple genes in song learning pathways in birds and speech pathways in humans. The vocal learning brain pathways have convergent specialized changes in genes that control connectivity, neuroprotection, and synaptic plasticity. We have found that specialized regulation is associated with convergent accelerated regions in the genomes of these species, which in turn have differential epigenetic availability in enhancer regions of some of the genes, inside the neur...
  • Carillon Serenades - In Celebration of Hoover Tower in its 80th Year
    Events at Stanford - 21:10 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 4:45 PM. Location: Hoover Tower For the 2021–2022 year, listen for the newly dedicated, Lou Henry Hoover carillon as the bells ring in celebration of Hoover Tower’s 80th year and in the spirit of welcoming the Stanford community back to campus. The carillon serenades will be played by Stanford carillonneur, Dr. Timothy Zerlang.  Current Schedule 4:45 pm – 5:15 pm on the second Thursday of the month November 11 (Veteran's Day) December 9    About Hoover Tower Commissioned by Herbert Hoover and dedicated on June 20, 1941, the Tower was built to house rare library and archival materials held by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Serving as a “North Star” for the Stanford campus, the Tower also serves as a gathering space, where visitors can visit the gallery spaces that feature special collections from Hoover’s collections. Located on the 14th floor, is the carillon—a gift from the Belgian-American Education Foundation—which symbolizes an overall purpose to promote peac...
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